You may have an issue though where it isn’t in the service and you need to connect your report to a local model on your desktop. This can be useful if you need to do some testing and don’t want to connect it to a model in the service, or you temporarily don’t have access to the service. Let’s see how this works.
What you need:
- Your thin PBIX report file. You can download this from the service if necessary.
- Your local model in Power BI Desktop. It must be up and running.
- Windows File Explorer
Read on for the process and a demonstration.